Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear: A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film

Screen Adaptations #4

by Yvonne Griggs

This close study of film adaptations of "King Lear "looks atseveral different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematicoffshoots') and discusses: the literary text in its historicalcontext, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text isadapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of theoriginal text. There are many references to the literary text and screenplays andthe book also features quotations from directors and critics. There isplenty of discursive material here to support student work on both filmand literature courses.

225 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 30, 2009

Reviews

[Abby]

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[Kishan Katira · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it is definitely worth watching the film adaptations that Griggs lists in the beginning before reading this book. I'll be sure to watch these other films having read about their take on Lear because of their reviews in this book. Even though I only really enjoyed the section on Kurosawa's 'Ran', it seemed that the other sections were written with as much detail, and so I'm giving this book a good review.